Here are some resources I pulled together to give people a sense of the kernel of Brian D. McLaren's new book:
Everything Must Change Sampler - YouTube
Everything Must Change Sampler - PDF
Download everything_must_change_revolutionaries_handbook.pdf
I am one of many bloggers who have shared their insights and reactions to this book (you can track how bloggers are interacting with this work here). My posts went through some of what I saw as the core threads of the book:
Everything Must Change: The Sauce Of the Book - The Spirituality Crisis
Everything Must Change: The Bone Of the Book - The Suicide Machine
Everything Must Change: The Meat Of the Book - The Crisis in Our Security System
Everything Must Change: The Meat Of the Book - The Crisis in Our Equity System
Everything Must Change: The Meat Of the Book - The Crisis in Our Prosperity System
I also posted some of my own personal reflection around the book:
Everything Must Change: A Revolution of Hope ~ A Personal Reflection
Everything Must Change: The Title - On Making Choices
Everything Must Change: The Title - An Imagined Conference Room Conversation
A Reflection Before Everything Must Change: Books, BBQ & A Dewey Decimal Replacement
Here is an ongoing list of complimentary resources that might be used by communities and groups as they grapple with the book:
A Meditation for Francis: Surely We Can Change
We are the binge generation – the ones who wanted it all
the subversive alternative language of the Kingdom litany by Shane Claiborne
Breaking me from a number of people in the ikon community in Ireland
Cheryl Lawrie has created some glorious worship resources for a ministry around restoration and liberation
We are prophets of a future not our own meditation attributed to slain Catholic bishop Oscar RomeroTwo more formal resources for groups:
Capacity building for local NGOs: A guidance manual for good practice. This comprehensive manual on capacity building for local non-governmental organisations can be used for training and development or by local NGOs as a self-help manual.
Come Let Us Reason Together outlines new, common-ground approaches on the toughest cultural matters, including abortion, gay and lesbian issues, the treatment of human embryos, and the role of religion in the public square
If you know of resources (your own or others) that you feel might be meaningful, please email me.
The author is maintaining a page of release notes, including any corrections to the book and a great list of suggested reading as a followup to the book.
A Facebook group Revolutionaries of Hope ~ Everything Must Change by Brian D. McLaren also exists for this book and the conversation around this book.
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